Can VPS and Cloud hosting be your savior?

Can VPS and Cloud hosting be your savior?

Last updated on December 26, 2013

After reading many articles in reference to VPS, I felt compelled to share some of the amazing stats that I've found. Just listen to some of these statistics, and think how they can save your business true dollars compared to what you're doing today.
First, $12.3 Billion will be saved on energy bills by 2020 from the use of Virtual and Cloud technology. There will be a 38% reduction in energy concumption by data centers by 2020. This is especially valuable for AIT, being that we operate a data center. A 2011 study from Microsoft, Accenture, and WSP Envrionment and Energy found that moving business applications to the Cloud will cut the associated per-user carbon footprint by 30% for larger companies and as much as 90% for small and less efficient businesses.
In addition to those statistics, over 82% of AIT's Data Center is utilizing some sort of Virtual or Cloud technology. So it's no wonder that this "Cloud" thing has really caught on. Luckily, we've been at the bleeding edge of the technology wave for years, and saw this virtual/cloud technology coming. AIT's first virtual technology, which is very simliar to the Cloud and VPS technology sold today, was created in 1996, and is used in many of the systems that we provide today. Multiplexing servers was something we had to do years ago to provide the services that customers would purchase. Today, it has a nicer name called "Cloud."
Really, all the Virtual Private Server systems, or Cloud systems that we use are a mass of resources that is cut into sections or chunks which can be provided to customers, and increased or decreased on demand. For example, the resources are monitored and evaluated for a need to increase or decrease resources based upon a.) load on the processor(s), b.) read/write activity on hard disks, and c.) incoming/outgoing network traffic. Based upon those things, AIT can increase or decrease resources as needed. And with the virtual infrastructure that we've created with the help of Microsoft, IBM, EMC and vmware, the solutions are rock solid.
So, has your business looked at moving it's business applications to the cloud? If not, give us a call. Sounds like we could save you alot of money.